What do you see in the world? Woe and sorrow and affliction and injustice? You don’t have to look very hard to find these things. What is your response to them? Are you filled with woe and sorrow out of sympathy for those afflicted? But you are called to be joyful. How can these seemingly contradictory things be reconciled? You are not called to be joyful because of your brother’s affliction but in spite of it. Your misery would not assist him. Who normally performs a rescue of one in distress? Is it someone who is also in distress or not? Being joyful puts you in a position to assist those in need.
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